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The Eyes are the Window to the Soul by Tired_Optimist
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
05 Sep 2021
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When Izuku was born Inko had thought he would be special.
She had loved him and thought him perfect. But now, as she watches him slink by, blindfold firmly in place, she can feel only hatred for the child who had cost her everything.
The child who had made her the mother of a villain.
Inko didn't love him anymore. He was fourteen now and hadn't seen his mother's love or her face since he was five. However, he knows that even if he was able to take the blindfold off he'd likely still see neither. Inko hated him for his quirk, that was obvious, but it wasn't the only reason. No, according to her, he's ungrateful (after all she kept him), he's selfish (he wanted to actually leave home for something other than school) and he's the reason his father left. That last one may actually be true. Hisashi Midoriya had walked out one summer day just after he'd turned four, ranting about "creepy brat" and "clearly not my son", convinced that Inko had cheated on him.
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Perfect Disguise by Tired_Optimist
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Aug 2021
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Aizawa Shouta is a logical man. He doesn't put stock in rumours or silly conspiracies. So, when rumours of a ghost haunting UA start spreading a week into the new year, he doesn't pay attention to them. Instead, he puts his focus into his new students and their field trip to the USJ.
Aizawa Shouta is a logical man. He trusts himself, trusts his instincts. So, when he gets off the bus to the USJ and feels more wrong than he has ever felt in his entire career he sends Iida off to fetch All Might before they go in. He doesn’t notice the muttering then. Only as he’s losing consciousness in a puddle of his own blood does he hear the soft voice.
“-orry, sorry, sorry-”
Izuku hated his life. But as he stands next to Eraserhead's broken body he decides that he hates this much more. He is truly powerless now, unable to warn anyone about the planned attack, unable to save anyone and unable to tell anyone about that thing currently wearing his skin. Not for the first time, he finds himself agreeing with that sludge freak. He really is the perfect disguise.
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"Now she has purpose, a name and a life. She is not bound by fate. She guides fate."
My first ever fanfic. How Hylia came to be and the beginning of the cycle.
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Wrap-Around by helpivefallenandicantgetup
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
19 Oct 2025
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Anakin Falls on the battlefield, on a small dusty planet in the Mid Rim that’s largely unimportant in the grand scale of the war. His men are dying in scores around him, screaming, spilling their guts onto the pockmarked ground, and something that has been pulling tighter and tighter over the course of the war, over the course of his whole life—between one decapitated droid and the next, something snaps in his chest. He doesn't know it, but he's more than a year early.
Or: Anakin navigates the path from straight up not noticing, to denial, to buying a pair of ugly sunglasses to hide his unfortunate Darksider eye condition, to a number of Sith lords dying in uniquely creative ways. If he reaches acceptance, it just might save the galaxy.
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03 Nov 2025
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Winter Comes Again by Blushinrosie
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
27 Aug 2025
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Two years after the Battle for the Living, the harshest winter in living memory still hasn’t ended. Sansa Stark is desperate to save what’s left of her people, but there’s nothing she can do except hope that they don’t all slowly starve before winter ends.
Well, nothing she can do until the Old Gods hear her desperate plea and send her back to Winterfell months before King Robert stepped foot in the North. Now all the “what ifs” she’s spent contemplating are possible and she’s promised the Old Gods she would do anything to save her family and the people of the North even if that meant staining her honor, allying with old enemies, or entering yet another unwanted marriage.
Or the one in which the Old Gods have zero tact and Sansa is determined to keep the game of thrones from ruining her family or the North.
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28 Oct 2025
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Warlock by Hadesbroken_lover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Nov 2025
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Unwilling to trust Dumbledore, Lily Potter has other ideas to protect her child. When Voldemort comes on Halloween night to end Harry Potter, he and the baby are caught up in old rune magic, destroying the body of one of the most feared Wizards in Britain, while Harry is transported to an alternate world.
An explosion catching his attention, Shota Aizawa rushes to supply aid and ends up finding an injured baby. A baby who has an active Quirk!
With no parents to be found, he and his husband Hizashi are suddenly fathers and now renamed Haruki Aizawa, the baby grows up in a very different life.
But Dumbledore has a war to win and as far as he's concerned, they need Harry Potter's sacrifice. Using powerful summoning magic fifteen years after the boy's disappearance he expects a lanky bespectacled version of James Potter...what he gets are two Pro Heroes in training and boy are they pissed!
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25 Oct 2025
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Never in a million years when Lucy Heartfilia agreed to watch over the Guild while the Guild Master and most of their higher-level mages were away at the S-Class trials could she have anticipated what came after:
The appearence of Acnologia and the disappearance of not just her friends and found family but of Tenrou Island as a whole.
In the aftermath there was only one thing she could think to do: start as she meant to go on, and keep Fairy Tail together no matter what it took.
She knew the others would return one day.
And by all the powers she could bring to bear, they would have a home to return to when that day came.
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22 Oct 2025
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A Theorem, A Requiem by PrinceTriscuit
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom, DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
24 Oct 2025
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16 Oct 2025